Westbrook, Maine -– Artel, the leader in liquid handling quality assurance, introduces ArtelWare v1.2, adding sophisticated tools for liquid handler monitoring with the company’s MVS® Multichannel Verification System. With new, color-coded heat maps for relative inaccuracy and %CV, users can view performance trends over the microplate. These new tools build on other recent ArtelWare enhancements […]

Westbrook, Maine -– Artel, the leader in liquid handling quality assurance, introduces ArtelWare v1.2, adding sophisticated tools for liquid handler monitoring with the company’s MVS® Multichannel Verification System. With new, color-coded heat maps for relative inaccuracy and %CV, users can view performance trends over the microplate. These new tools build on other recent ArtelWare enhancements […]

Sunnyvale, CA — Freeslate, Inc., the leading provider of high throughput research solutions for drug development, today announced Argonne National Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy research laboratory, acquired a CM Protégé Powder Dispense System. The automated powder dispense system is designed to be flexible and easy to use while retaining the accuracy and precision […]

CHELMSFORD, Mass.– Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS) announced the appointment of Maurice “Dusty” Tenney III to the role of President, Life Science Systems, effective November 3, 2014. In this role, Mr. Tenney will have overall leadership responsibility for the company’s growing life sciences business and portfolio consisting of automated sample storage systems; instruments and devices; consumables; […]

Charleston, SC — NanoScreen, LLC, a global industry leader in automated liquid handling products for the Life Sciences, announces the release of the ORION Liquid Handling Workstation. ORION is a flexible, multi-format, high precision pipetting robot designed to meet the liquid handling needs of today’s laboratories. It offers exceptional performance in a small package at […]

SHOREVIEW, MN — PaR Systems, Inc. (https://www.par.com), a world leader in aerospace manufacturing, material handling, automation, and robotic solutions since 1961, is pleased to announce the appointment of Rich Baker to the position of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Baker will be responsible for the company’s technology strategy, engineering and product development. “Rich is the ideal […]

WINOOSKI VT, USA — BioTek has been awarded U.S. Patent 8,858,718, covering the use of ultrasonic devices to check for clogged manifold tubes and to clean the manifold tubes of a microplate washer automatically. The two features are known as Verify™ and Ultrasonic Advantage™ and are available in BioTek’s 405 family of microplate washers. Using […]

Leipzig, Germany — European Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking Conference -– Hamilton Storage Technologies, an affiliate entity of Hamilton Company, a leading provider in the design and manufacture of liquid handling, process measurement, robotics and storage solutions, and Askion, the partner for modular biobank system solutions to handle and store biological material at highest quality […]

Männedorf, Switzerland -– King’s College Hospital, London, has established a fully automated therapeutic drug monitoring protocol for clozapine using Tecan’s AC Extraction Plate™ and Freedom EVO® liquid handling platform. Lewis Couchman, Senior Clinical Scientist (Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory and Toxicology Department), explained: “We perform about 30,000 tests a year for clozapine, preparing the samples manually by […]

Sunnyvale, CA — Freeslate, Inc., the leading provider of high throughput research solutions for biopharmaceutical development, today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) acquired a Freeslate Core Module 3 (CM3) Reaction Screening System and Screening Pressure Reactor to expand its high throughput research capabilities for catalyst screening and optimization. […]